A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save info. The SSDs remain fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their website hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have removed all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all of the content you upload to your shared web hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. In order to enhance the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work only as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We employ such a configuration to ensure that multi-media loaded sites do not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, which is one more guarantee for the safety and integrity of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mails. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a few heavy websites which generate plenty of reading and writing processes will not impact the other websites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your content.